Bag closure



(No Model.)

A. L. ROSS.

` BAG OLOSURE. No. 605,343. Patented June '7, 1898.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters meent No. ceases, cated .Tune 7, 189e.

i Application filed il' une 25, 1897.

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Be it known that I, AROHIA L. Ross, of New i York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Closures, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to bags used for receiving ashes, papers, and other refuse from households and the like; and its object is to provide certain new and usefulimprovements in bag-closures whereby a bag can be conveniently suspended and its mouth held open to allow of iilling the bag with refuse material and when the bag is full to permit of closing the mouth of the bag hermetically to prevent spilling or escape of the contents when transporting the bag from one place to another.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as suspended and with the mouth of the bag open to receive the refuse material. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improvement with the mouth open and part broken out. Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the improvement with the mouth open. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the same with the frame closed, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of keeper. f

The bag A is made of canvas or other suitabl fabric material and is provided at its mouth with a frame B, preferably made of spring-wire and formed with two members B B2, arched or U shape and pivotally connected with each other at their ends at B3 to form a hinge-joint to swing the members toward each other to close the mouth of the bag or from each other to open the bag, as indicated in Figs. l, 2, and 3.

The member B2 is formed at or near` its middle with a catch B4 by doubling a portion of the member and bending the doubled-up portion transversely and forming the doubled-up portion with a shoulder B5, adapted seria in. 642,256. (Nq man.)

to snap underthe middle part of the member B', so as to lock the two members of the frame together. (See Figii.)

On the lmember B', andV preferably at the middle thereof, is hung a U -shaped holder or loop C, serving a twofold purpose-namely, of suspending thebag from a hook, nail, or like device D, as illustrated in Fig. l, and to enable the operator to conveniently open the bag by the operator taking hold of the said loop C with one hand and pulling on the free end of the catch B4 in a downward direction to unlock the shoulder B5 from the member B.

`In order to hermetically seal the mouth of the bag when the frame B is closed, I provide a packing-strip E, preferably made of braid, cord, or like material and sewed to the hem of the bag, engaging the members B B2 of the frame B, the said packing following the lines of the frame members, so that when the latter are closed the opposite sides of the packing abut one upon the other, as plainly indi cated in Fig. 4, to hermetically seal the mouth of the bag.

Now by the arrangement described the bag can be readily opened at its mouth and one member of the frame is readily suspended from a lnail, hook, or like support, so as to keep the bag open to permit of conveniently lling ashes, paper, or other refuse into the said bag. l/Vhen the bag is full, then it is taken oif the hook and its mouth closed while locking the frame members together, as previously explained. In closing the mouth of the bag the same is hermetically sealed, as above mentioned, to allow of conveniently transporting the bag from one place to another without danger of spilling the contents thereof. f Y

For very large bags any desired number of catches B4 may be used on a single member B2, if desired-preferably however, one on each side of the loop C. In order to prevent the members B and B2 from shifting one on the other when closed, I may form the member B with a U-shaped keeper or receiver B6 for the catch B'l to snap under, as shown `in Fig. 5.

Having thus fully described my invention,

l. A bag-closure, comprising a frame having two members pivotally connected with each other, and each formed of spring metal, one member being provided at or near its middle with a pivoted loop, and the other with a transversely-extending catch having a shoul- I der adapted to snap under the other frame member, between the members of the said loop to lock the members and keep the frame in a closed position, and a cord packing arranged on the inside of the frame and following the line of the members thereof, so that. when the bag is closed, the said packing hermetically seals the mouth of the bag, substantially as shown and described.

2.' A bag-closure, comprising a frame havf ing two members pivotally connected with 1 each other, and each formed of spring metal,

one member being provided at or near its middle with a U-shaped keeper and the other with a transversely-extending catch formed by doubling a portion of the member, then bending the doubledup portion and forming the same with a shoulder adapted to snap under the keeper of the other frame member, to look the member and keep the frame in a closed position, a loop pivoted on the other` frame member forsuspending the bag and for conveniently opening the frame members and a cord packing on the inside of the frame and following the line of the members thereof, substantially as shown and described.

l ARCI-IIA L. ROSS. Witnesses:

THEO. G. HosTER,

EvERARD BoLToN MARSHALL. 

